there's other political news to cover. we'll get to some of that here. in kentucky, recent comments against obama care by senator mitch mcconnell has democrats rally ago round the president's health care law. wednesday night the minority leader said the law was quot qu catastrophic failure and needed to be pulled out root and branch. but yesterday's the state's democratic governor pushed back. >> kentucky has become the gold standard when it comes to implementing the affordable care act. i'm very proud of that. there's a tremendous pent up demand in kentucky for affordable health care and to me that translates all across america. folks, you hear all kinds of criticisms about the act. it will never work. i have a u.s. senator who keeps saying kentuckyians don't want this. well the facts don't prove that out. there's about 550,000 of them on our website right now that want it and some 65,000, 69,000 that have signed up. so kentuckyians do want this. >> senator mcconnell responded saying quote, identify been traveling around kentucky, listening to what my c